Releazed i haven't updated this in a while. Enjoy


Chapter three

When Destiny finally awoke the next morning, she was greeted with the pleasant warmth of the sun rays gleaming through her window. A smile crept across her lips. It had been a long time since she'd had a peaceful sleep.

She sat up in bed and stretched out her arms. The air around her felt crisp and the warmth of a new day filled her with happiness that bubbled inside of her.

Destiny tossed her legs over the side of the bed and stood up. She tip-toed her way to the closet and began to rummage through the clothes inside.

A plaid skirt caught her eye and she took it off from its hanger and slipped in on under her dress. The skirt came down a little bit above her knees. She liked the way the fabric felt against her cold skin.

Then, slipping off her black dress, she searched for a blouse. Finally she found a white blouse and a pink sweater. She felt so cold and the sweater and blouse looked so warm and inviting.

So, she pulled on the long sleeved blouse and then buttoned the sweater on over it. It fit her with a little too much room but she didn't care. Carefully she folded up her dress and laid it on her bed. Luckily for her, a beautiful mirror stood conveniently at the right side of her new room. She walked toward it and began to thoroughly examine herself.

Her eyes sparkled in delight when she saw herself. I look pretty, she thought in satisfaction. On her dresser top she spotted a metal watch and placed it around her wrist. That way she'd be able to tell the time for once with out having to ask strangers.

Her raven black hair was a bit messy, so she ran her fingers through it to straighten it just a bit. She needed a clip of some kind to make it a little more presentable.

She carefully looked through the drawers of her nightstand and dresser but found only old sweaters and blankets. Finally she found a small trinket box at the bottom of an empty drawer. It was filled with old coins and needles as well as tiny little shells. Then, Destiny found a small metal hair clip. Smiling she pulled a few stray hair from behind her ear and caught them in the clip.

Outside she faintly heard the sound of footsteps coming from the hallway. Other students are awake, Destiny thought excitedly.

Quickly she ran to her door and flung it open. To her surprise, only one student crept through the halls. He was faced away from her, so she could only see the back of his head which was covered in blond hair.

She wondered why only one student had woken up beside herself. The boy didn't even seem to have changed out of his night clothes. She reached down to grab her right wrist. Looking at her new watch she realized it was quite early, only 6:55 a.m.

"Um… excuse me." Destiny called to the boy.

He suddenly stopped and turned toward her. He studied her for a second as if he was trying to decide if they'd ever met before. "Yeah?" The boy answered.

Destiny stepped a bit closer. He had blue eyes like hers but his were almost white, even more like pale ice. But they weren't cold, they were very gentle. He wore a white sleeveless t-shirt and long pajama pants. She guessed it was either a junior or a senior.

"Can I help you with something?" he asked, causing Destiny to loose focus. "I'm sorry. I am kind of lost. Could you maybe tell me where…" Destiny jerked her head to the side. "Life stealer." She mumbled.

The boy looked down at her in confusion. "What did you say?" he asked, raising his left eye brow to indicate his puzzlement. "Huh?" Destiny snapped out of her semi-trance and rubbed the sleep from the corner of her eyes with the heel of her hand.

"Good Morning Bobby."

Both Destiny and the boy turned around. A girl with a pale white streak marking her dark brown hair walked toward them. She wore a black and white pajama set and white silk gloves over her hands. From her accent, Destiny could tell she was originally from the south.

As she came closer she spotted Destiny at last. It was as if Destiny had just appeared out of the clear blue sky and the new girl was finally taking notice.

"Who's your friend?" she asked the boy, taking his hand in her gloved one.

"I'm Destiny," she said introducing herself. She extended her hand for her to shake.

"Its nice to meet you Destiny, I'm Rogue and this is Bobby." The girl said as she shook her hand. "It's very nice to meet you too." Destiny said smiling.

"Did you just arrive at the school?" the boy, she now knew as Bobby, asked.

Destiny nodded. "Yeah, I guess I came in a few weeks ago… but I can't remember." She rubbed her forehead and walked past them.

Both Rogue and Bobby exchanged wide eyed looks.

"Say, can one of you tell me where Professor Xavier might be?" she asked, slightly feeling cold all of a sudden.

"Sure thing, just take a right down this hall and he should be in the second room to the left." The boy instructed, pointing his finger down the hallway. She felt the chill again and smiled. "Thanks Iceboy." She said as she skipped down the hallway.

Once she was gone, Bobby turned to Rogue in puzzlement.

"Who was that girl?" he asked in confusion. "I don't know." Rogue said shaking her head.

Destiny finally came to the end of the hallway where the room Bobby had indicated was in clear view. The door which she had expected to be closed was slightly ajar. Shadows moved in and out of the light that escaped through the opening.

"She knew my name Xavier, she knew my name and I had no freaking idea who the hell she was." Wolverine complained as he passed back and forth in Xavier's office.

"There's nothing to worry about Logan. She is able to read the abilities of other mutants. With such power it is possible she could have gained access to a memory and found your name." Xavier explained, tried to ease Logan's nerves. "But you said yourself that you didn't see any high psychic energy coming from her. She wouldn't be able to 'Access' a memory with out having known me already." Logan rubbed his forehead and fell into a leather chair in the corner of his office.

"She is as much of a mystery to me as she is to you. We have to give this time…" "We don't have any damn time!" Logan interrupted. "What if that girl knows something… something about my life before … before I became this?" He reached his arms out, showing Xavier the metal claws that were now a part of him.

"I understand Logan but the girl doesn't seem stable. She isn't fully in control of her powers. Let her get settled in and then we can figure this all out." Xavier turned around looking out the window. "We can only hope for the best."

Logan grunted and walked out of the room, colliding into something. As a reflex, he reached forward quickly and grabbed hold of the girl in front of him. "I'm really sorry Logan; I didn't realize you were in there." Destiny apologized. She stood up straight and looked up at him. "I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you." She said, never once taking her gaze away from him.

Logan looked at her quickly and then walked away, leaving her feeling like a complete and total idiot.

"Come in Destiny there is much we need to talk about." The Professor called. Destiny stood for a minute, and then finally came into his office, unprepared for what would happen.

The Lunch room was filled with students of every age, getting their daily meal and taking their seats at the wooden tables.

Rogue and Bobby sat together along side Kitty and Peter a.k.a. Colossus. A boy walked toward them, his dark black hair gelled and his tan face gazed toward them. "Hey guys." He called. Once he neared them, he took a seat by Kitty and placed his plastic tray on the table. "Hey Seth, you missed Algebra today." Rogue noted as he sat down. "Yeah, I had a bit of a problem this morning." She nodded, as if that was enough for her to understand what he meant.

"So I hear you two meet the new girl." Colossus said looking toward Rogue and Bobby. They both exchanged looks. "We did but she seemed… I don't know…" Rogue said at a loss of words. "Different." Bobby finished.

"Well speak of the Devil." Kitty said staring toward the two wooden doors in front of the small narrow room.

There in the doorway stood Destiny, she had a confident smile on her face that soon faded when she saw all the students around her. She tugged at the bottom of her skirt nervously and then began forward.

"She looks a bit scared." Colossus commented. "She looks a bit strange." Kitty said with a giggle. "Come on Kitty, we're all a bit strange here." With that Seth stood up and began walking toward her. "Where are you going?" Rogue asked. "I'm going to ask her to sit with us."

At once Destiny sensed him walking toward her and panicked.

"Hey I haven't seen you around here before." Seth said innocently enough.

Destiny's face flushed and she looked down at her shoes. "I just came in today." she lied.

"I'm Seth." He extended his hand toward her. Destiny hadn't expected this of course and jumped back a little. "I'm sorry, did I frighten you?" he asked kindly.

Destiny looked down at his firm hand placed in front of her. Cautiously she took gentle hold of his index finger and then slowly crept the rest of her hand onto his. "Destiny…" she said quietly still looking at his hand. "What was that?" the boy, Seth asked.

"Destiny… my name." she said searching for words. "Oh, your name! Well, it's nice to meet you Destiny." At last Seth caught her gaze and laughed. "Is my hand all that interesting to be studying it with such… such a passion?" he asked still chuckling. Awaking from her hypnotic state, her eyes darted toward his. "Yes Actually, I've never seen blood this shade before." She said innocently.

Along Seth's pale white knuckles were crimson scabs that had cracked and were beginning to bleed.

In response to Destiny comment, Seth raised an eyebrow inquisitively and let out a soft chuckle. "You're different but I like that." She took his hand again and ran a slender finger along his knuckles, collecting droplets of blood on her finger tip.

Seth hissed. "It still stings a little." He explained once he caught Destiny starring at him.

"I'm sorry, its just… so warm." she rubbed her fingers together and smiled, "And sticky too." She said, giggling. Seth stared at her, knowing she was in fact a bit stranger than the lot of them in that room.

"Here, you can come and sit with some friends of mine." He said at last, motioning for her to follow him toward the table.

His friends looked on in bewilderment. "Guys, I'd like you to meet Destiny." He said as he pulled out a chair for her. She slowly sat down in the chair but she was too busy looking at her fellow students to do so gracefully.

"Destiny this is Bobby, peter, but we call him Colossus, Kitty and Rogue." Seth said pointing to each of them and then stopping at Rogue. "The Life Stealer." She corrected looking straight toward her. "What do you call me?" she asked defensively.

"It was probably a misunderstanding." Bobby said calmly. "It wasn't…" Destiny said starring at him intensively. Then she began to giggle. "Iceboy." She said under her breathe.

Kitty unfortunately heard her. "I like that name for Bobby. Iceboy." She said, trying out the feel of the new found nickname. "Wait a minute…" Bobby stopped, moving his gaze toward Destiny. "How'd you know what I could do?" Destiny sunk into her seat, not wanting to answer. "It's a good thing none of them are mind readers." She thought to herself.

"She must have heard someone mention it, it's no big thing, right?" Seth smiled, showing his beautiful pearly white teeth. Destiny sighed, she hated to lie and she hated it more when people lied on her behalf.

"That's not it." She sat up straight in the plastic chair. "Then how did you know, are you a mind reader, because if you are I don't…" Rogue asked, interested all at once. Destiny giggling interrupted. "No, no. By looking at someone or touching their skin, I can tell if they are a mutant and what their powers are." She explained. "Oh well that's pretty cool, let's see… what's my power?" Kitty asked excitedly.

Destiny's eyes bored into Kitty like daggers, then, her eyes dilated. Seconds later she silently jerked back in her chair. "So… what am I?" she asked, her eyes sparkling.

"My nickname for you would be Casper, because you can move your atoms apart until it becomes liable for you to become ghost like and walk through walls." Destiny said proudly. "Whoa, she's good. So what were they doing to you upstairs?" Kitty asked, since no one else seemed to want to. All at once Destiny felt overwhelmed with fear of what they might think.

"I was unconscious for two weeks." She muttered feeling helpless. "What woke you up?" Colossus asked all at once feeling thrilled with the conversation. "I'm not sure; I only remember feeling this amazing rush of coolness along my forehead and all my pain vanished. When I opened my eyes I saw Logan beside me in the lab." She sighed feeling so idiotic all over again.

"And he said he didn't know anything…" Rogue moaned. "You're friends of Logan's?" Destiny asked, startled. "You could say that." Bobby said strangely. "So, who is this Jean I keep hearing about, I'd love to meet her." Destiny said dumbly due to her lack of knowledge of this strange new place. "You can't meet her." Kitty said sadly. "Why not?" Destiny asked.

The group looked at one another with depressed demeanors. "She died trying to protect us on one of the X-men's missions." Destiny gaped at them. "I'm so sorry… I could have sworn…" she paused taking in the details. "X-men?" they all laughed at her shy dumbness. "The best of us become x-men, super heroes in our own way." Bobby explained.

"It all sounds so exciting but I don't think I'd ever make it into the x-men… I'm horrible." She said her eyes drawn downward. Seth looked at her across the table and lend forward. "What do you mean 'You're horrible', how can you say that?" he asked. Destiny looked up at him and he was started at how her eyes appeared like water.

"I'm not suited to be a hero." She said, her eyes felt hypnotic upon him.

But Seth never got to find out what she meant for the next minute; Logan was standing behind them, munching down on a chocolate bar.

"Hey kids, what going on?" he asked through a mouth full of candy.

Destiny turned down her eyes away from Seth. "We were just talking." She said, not even looking up at Logan.

He looked around the table, puzzled. "Destiny, you made yourself some friends?" he said with a smile. Destiny nodded meekly. Logan came over to her and leaned down to her level. "What's bothering you, huh?" she looked up and sighed. "No one knows who I really am… and when they do, they won't like who I turn out to be." She quickly got up and raced out of the room.